Earmark Watch

House Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations, FY2008

PLEASE NOTE: EarmarkWatch is an experimental distributed research project that contains data for Fiscal Year 2008 earmarks from the House and Senate Labor-HHS-Education bills and the 2008 House Defense Bill.

It does not contain 2009 earmarks. Congress released earmark disclosures for an omnibus bill that included three of the twelve regular appropriations bills—Defense, Homeland Security, and Military Construction/Veterans Affairs—for fiscal year 2009.

A downloadable spreadsheet listing those earmarks is available from Taxpayers for Common Sense (xls).

Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA)

http://www.house.gov/goode

Rep. Goode (R-VA) has Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education earmarks totalling $1,250,000

For this appropriations bill, Rep. Goode (R-VA) ranks in the 87th percentile.

“$100,000 for Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, VA for the Residential Construction Academy”

Sponsor:

(0 Comments, 0% Complete)

“$200,000 for Southside Virginia Community College, Alberta, VA for the Heavy Equipment Training Program”

Sponsor:

(0 Comments, 0% Complete)

“$300,000 for Halifax Regional Health System, South Boston, VA for an electronic health records initiative, including equipment”

Sponsor:

(1 Comments, 100% Complete)

“$70,000 for Bedford Ride, Bedford, VA for a program to assist seniors”

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(0 Comments, 0% Complete)

“$100,000 for Jefferson Area Board for Aging, Charlottesville, VA to address nursing assistant shortages in long-term care settings”

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(0 Comments, 0% Complete)

“$200,000 for Institute for Advanced Learning and Research, Danville, VA for professional development for teachers in the field of nanotechnology”

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(0 Comments, 0% Complete)

“$280,000 for University of Virginia Center for Politics, Charlottesville, VA for the Youth Leadership Initiative”

Sponsors:

(1 Comments, 0% Complete)

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